Hayden Library - TA459.A5171 1990 v.4D

Hayden Library - QD172.R2 R374 2015

Hayden Library - TA459.A5171 1990 v.4B

Hayden Library - TN693.S5 C43 2013

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Update: As Army clarified that they are not involved in firing on public, the news is updated. 3 civilians were killed in firing by the police in 3 separate places of Guwahati, Assam today. One Dipanjal Das (aged 23) was shot dead when a joint patron of para-military and police fired at the public of […]

The post Updated: 3 civilians killed in firing by police in Guwahati – Protest again Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 continues appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Times of Assam Bureau.

The Army today denied their involvement in firing against any of the protestors of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). It came as a clarification regarding the news published on Times of Assam yesterday about the killing of 3 civilians in Guwahati. In a telephonic conversation with our Chief Editor, Defence PRO (Guwahati) of the Indian […]

The post Army denies their involvement in firing on CAB protesters of Assam appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Times of Assam Bureau.

More than 2000 ‘Gana Satyagrahi’ are detained for protesting against the ‘Citizenship Amendment Act’ in Assam’s capital city Guwahati today. As the protests against the unconstitutional ‘Citizenship Amendment Act’ continues, more than 2000 civic citizens were gathered on the bank of ‘Dighalipukhuri’ of Guwahati to assemble ‘Satyagraha’ today morning. The civic protesters included Assamese artists, […]

The post Citizenship Amendment Act Protest – Over 2000 ‘Gana Satyagrahi’ detained and released in Guwahati appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Pradip Deka.

The reason why Assam or Tripura is up against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, passed by the Union of India is very different from the reasons why the rest of India, including most Indian Universities, are protesting. Assam or Tripura does not want this Act at all – no matter its Hindus or Muslims. The […]

The post Citizenship Amendment Act – Untold Pitfalls, Concealed War if India can’t oppose appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Priyankan Goswami.

And an unprecedented pandemic of Covid-19 continues to rise! The toll has been ascending every single hour at a much faster rate showing no sign of descent in its trajectory, sweeping off the entire world with fear, anxiety, infections, and deaths. For the first time in history, next to 2009’s H1N1 swine flu virus outbreak, […]

The post COVID-19 – Current bottlenecks and its probable repercussions appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Anmona Handique Mahanta.

In a reversal of its position on opening liquor shops during the lockdown period, AIADMK on Friday asked the government to allow sale of alcohol in th

After her analysis of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hannah Arendt turned her scholarly attention to the subject of revolution—namely, to the French and American Revolutions. However, the first chapter of her 1963 book On Revolution opens with a paraphrase of Lenin about her own time: “Wars and revolutions… have thus far […]

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If we are to remain socially distant in the coming months of the pandemic—and nearly every reputable health expert says we should—at least 21st century technology has prepared us for life lived in isolation. If we insist on going out, we may see a 20th century innovation become even more popular. The drive-in theater has […]

Drive-In Concerts and Even Raves Are Becoming the Rage in Europe is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Willem Janszoon Blaeu Celestial Globe 1602 No matter how accustomed we've grown over the centuries to flat maps of the world, they can never be perfectly accurate. Strictly speaking, no map can perfectly capture the territory it describes (an impossibility memorably fictionalized by Jorge Luis Borges in "On Exactitude in Science"), but there's a reason […]

3D Interactive Globes Now Online: Spin Through an Archive of Globes from the 17th and 18th Century is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Like everyone else in COVID-19 isolation, Juilliard students are itching to get out and play. For them, the desire is a little more of an imperative. Without meeting and rehearsing together, these dedicated artists at the beginning of their careers can’t hone their skills. “In normal times,” writes Benjamin Sosland at the Juilliard Journal, “Juilliard’s […]

Juilliard Students & the New York Philharmonic Perform Ravel’s <I>Bolero</I> While Social Distancing in Quarantine is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

The world-wide Tribble infestation and Star Trek: Picard dropping make this an apt time to address our most philosophical sci-fi franchise. 44 years of thought experiments (with photon torpedoes!) about what it is to be human should have taught us something, and Brian Hirt, Erica Spyres, and Mark Linsenmayer along with Drew Jackson (Erica's husband) […]

Star Trek: World-Building Over Generations—Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #42 is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

No image is more closely associated with the birth of the motion picture than a train pulling into the French coastal town of La Ciotat. Captured by cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière, the 50-second clip frightened the audience at its first screening in 1896, who thought a real locomotive was hurtling toward them — […]

The Earliest Known Motion Picture, 1888’s <i>Roundhay Garden Scene</i>, Restored with Artificial Intelligence is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

FYI: Masterclass is running a Buy One, Share One Free through this weekend. Here's the gist: If you buy an All-Access pass to their 80+ courses, you will receive another All-Access Pass to give to someone else at no additional charge. An All-Access pass costs $180, and lasts one year. For that fee, you--and a family member or friend--can […]

Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal (Until the End of the Weekend) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

King Crimson’s master guitarist Robert Fripp has had a career long reputation as an autocrat, and exacting, difficult taskmaster. He’s named an album, a band, and a record company “Discipline.” Drummer Bill Bruford once described him as an “an amalgam of Stalin, Gandhi and the Marquis de Sade,” according to The Telegraph. But recently, there’s […]

Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments” is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

 The Great Courses has made available a free and rather timely course--Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity. Divided into 24 lectures and taught by Molly Birkholm, the course gets introduced with the following text: Recent research shows that we grow into our best and most joyful selves not when we avoid our problems […]

<i>Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity</i>–A Free 24-Lecture Course is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

1 online resource (xvii, 1161 pages) : illustrations, maps.

1 online resource (xxvii, 1203 pages) : illustrations, maps.

A fact sheet about genetic testing for inherited cancer risk, including who should consider testing, how to understand test results, and who has access to a person’s test results. Also contains information about at-home, or direct-to-consumer, genetic tests.

It's not just my own kids' well-being that matters anymore.

The superstorm almost destroyed our home. What happened afterward shocked me.

Watch the trailer here and tell us!

Monali Thakur speaks about her journey, about becoming an actor and working with Nagesh Kukunoor, and her next film Mango.

Music composer Abhishek Arora on composing music for the television series Love By Chance.

Raja Sen reviews Finding Fanny trailer.

The actress will be seen playing a cop in Pradeep Sarkar's new film Mardaani.

All for a good cause, the ice bucket challenge has become an internet sensation and raised over $23 million.

The film will release on November 21.

'I take interest in all my films but I took special interest in Khamoshiyan.' Mahesh Bhatt tells us why.

Naseeruddin Shah at the launch of his autobiography, And Then One Day: A Memoir, in Bengaluru.

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KK discusses his top songs with Rajul Hegde/ Rediff.com, and even sings some of them!

Welcome 2 Karachi will release on May 28.

'When I go to small towns for shows people say 'yeh cockroach hai instead of crockroaz.' But I don't mind it because they call me out of love.' Dance India Dance choreographer Raghav Juyal gets ready for ABCD 2.

SPECTRE promises to be a twisty tale of reveals and double-crosses, and Sam Mendes is the right filmmaker for the task.

'People keep asking me where I get so much energy from. But I'm just having fun because people are still offering me good work,' Amitabh Bachchan tells us.

'Today, when I watch animated films again, I still feel connected with the child in me.' Sunidhi Chauhan talks Frozen.

The latest updates from Bollywood.

Raja Sen has just watched the teaser of Sachin: A Billion Dreams a few times over, and he can't stop grinning.

We offer a sneak peek right here.

'Madhuri is the best (dancer). She's is not mechanical. Most dancers like Aishwarya, Deepika, Priyanka and Kareena are fabulous but I don't see then enjoying it the way they should. Their focus is on, 'Am I looking beautiful?'' Straight talk from choreographer Terence Lewis.

Sunny Leone is living it up under the sun.

Veteran music composer Khayyam revisits Umrao Jaan.

'It's a privilege and honour to be a woman every day of my life!'

Welcome back, Raveena Tandon!